Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Herman and Chomsky construct a powerful argument that the US mass media (at least, in the 60's-80's) - through the filters of corporate ownership, advertising, limited sourcing of information, and flak from corporate interest groups - function as a mostly self-regulating system of corporate and government propoganda. They argue that the media filter world events and US foreign wars through an ideological lens, helping to conceal and prolong mass murder in US client states, focusing only on human rights violations in states whose government the US opposes. The first few sections - comparing media apologetics for state terror in Guatemala and El Salvador to coverage of Nicaragua - and covering a media-fabricated KGB plot to kill the pope - are excellent. The chapters on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia - while also excellent, are more qualitative. My only criticism is that the thread from corporate / government interests to disinformation is usually, but not always, clear.

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